Welcome to the Piano World Piano ForumsOver 2.5 million posts about pianos, digital pianos, and all types of keyboard instruments
Join the World's Largest Community of Piano Lovers
(it's free)
It's Fun to Play the Piano ... Please Pass It On!

I'm just curious. In the past, I've had teachers who would devote a some of the lesson to scales and exercises, part of it to theory and the rest to performing pieces. My current teacher just assigns me pieces and spends the total lesson time analyzing what I'm doing right and wrong. Is this typical?

Al: My teacher usually has me start by playing what I've been working on that week. Each piece is analyzed afterwards. She will not typically interupt me unless it's a new piece and I miss something important. Then we discuss anything that I have questions about. Finally she'll have me sight read something that I've been working on more recently, or something totally new she wants me to learn. While I play she checks my music theory work book. I don't recall ever being asked to play a scale for her except when she shows me some new way to exercise, ie Hanon.Jon